About a dozen modern QoL features, like not having to host your own server to be able to receive messages on mobile clients

Haven’t spy satellites had super clear resolution for quite a few decades now?

I said no STRONG emotion, go back to my post 2 levels up. Like, I’m not about to sit there and start crying, I’m just not an emotional guy. Is that now a crime?

Possibly. Is that on the level of getting permabanned, though?

Yep. So was the holocaust. But at least for me, it’s an intellectual outrage, nothing that works up my emotions. Apparently to some people, that’s unacceptable.

I don’t have any strong feelings or opinions about the holocaust in particular, as opposed to any of the other multiple genocides and atrocities humanity has committed over the ages, or even just the assorted hundreds of millions of deaths from war, famine, disease, etc. They all suck, but I see no reason to get more emotional about one specific event than any of the others.

I get that it’s especially sensitive for many people because they feel connected to the event via personal, family or national ties. None of those apply to me. How strongly do YOU feel about the Crusades, which were very much an attempted genocide? Chances are, you don’t, because it’s just not culturally relevant.

Meh. Their admins are human like any other. One of their main subs banned me for saying that as an Asian, I didn’t have any opinion or strong feelings on the holocaust.

Yep

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-college-research-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute

Ironically, firing the non-essential janitor would have prevented the last incident of this type

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-college-research-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute

The header and footer? Possibly, if you knew the technical metadata of the file. Codec, bitrate, all that jazz

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It works well with shows you want to start watching immediately. Enable sequential download, 2 minues to grab the header/footer, and you can start watching. It’ll download faster than you watch.

To continue that analogy, they’re the pimp and you’re the slut. You’re the one getting shared around.

Video files can be played with as little as 5% downloaded, so long as the header and footer are complete

Cloudflare is free, and with a bunch of other services available

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The Tor analysis is suspect in the first place. The whole thing is much ado over nothing.

The botnet in this case it’s called NTP

It’s already drowned out by low quality SEO spam, so no difference

Because there weren’t any great options at the time. Firefox has gotten better, but at that time Chrome was just super fast and lightweight in comparison to all the competitors.